Youtube flags video with videogame footage uploaded by it's own creator

[Sleepy]

Warning: Video contains swearing.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1HGIiPbuc

 

Basically, I'm gonna assume many of you have noticed all the changes of Youtube. Not just the most recent ones, but Youtube has been changing a lot for a while.

 

What do you think of all this?

[D.A._Sakuyamon]

Here's one from, Green 9090 and a bud of his who animated it for him.

 

Also contains swearing and semy crud positions

 

http://youtu.be/mN0XcS1FTqU

 

But yeah, really seems like garbage for the majority of youtubers.

[Sleepy]

Well yeah, there is that reason why it happens.

There is also that YouTube likes pushing certain tendencies on the audience. They'll encourage and promote things like bloggers much more than they would ever do gamer channels, for example

Less copyright issues and less average duration of the videos.

If a person watches more short videos instead of a single hour-long gameplay video, the adds produce more money for YouTube as well.

 

 

To be honest, I was pretty annoyed when YouTube stopped having so much of movies, anime episodes, etc in it, but deep down I knew they were in the right because of copyright, but this time is much less justified.

People like AngryJoe for example, practically make a living from these videos.

 

That added with all the Google+ issues, which are just another reason to be annoyed at the company that runs YouTube.

 

 

 

 

Fake claims of copyrights though should be downright illegal. It's widely known at this point that a bunch of those are just BS.

[Just Crouton]

@The flagging situation:

 

Well, this is another reason why relying solely on Youtube for money instead of having a stable job is a bad idea.

 

I'm guessing the affected videos are related to current/ recent games, so older games (as recent as PS2/XBox) should still be alright since companies aren't making money off them anymore.

 

@The guy getting copyrighted for his own stuff:

 

Well, now we see a big flaw in Google's system.

[.Rai]

Not a target on gaming particularly, but Content I'd clearly affects those with gaming content more (curious non-gaming example was NASA having footage of the Mars Rover Curiosity taken down). YouTube are fully aware that their most watched channels are largely gaming channels (why do think they had a big Geek Week campaign; many of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative channels are gaming-related [see Geek & Sundry, for example]).

Obviously, the Content ID system is just plain out flawed. It's difficult, otherwise they have to spend more manhours into reviewing claims. There's a bunch of speculative reasons that you could throw in, but I think the main reason is this sort of weird expansion YouTube's going through. This is probably correlated to the Google+ changes, in that YouTube is moving away from content sharing towards larger things. Obviously, this is putting a load of content creators in the dust, which is unfortunate, and possibly not the best business decision either.

You just kinda have to wait to see what YouTube do. The premise that they work closely with their channels seems to be slowly turning into more and more of a ruse. Obvious, to be honest, considering how unsubtle their 'big-company expansion' is going, but a shame anyway.

[Blake]

@The flagging situation:

 

Well, this is another reason why relying solely on Youtube for money instead of having a stable job is a bad idea.

 

I'm guessing the affected videos are related to current/ recent games, so older games (as recent as PS2/XBox) should still be alright since companies aren't making money off them anymore.

Except that's wrong.

 

Game companies in general WANT LPers to play their games. It's free advertising, and the people playing them on screen are the only ones playing them, so the people at home are only getting a preview.

 

They only really go after people who just publish the cutscenes/spoilers. Only other actual case of such was Ninty saying they might not let YTers monetize off of their games, but then they recanted that.

 

The effect on the gaming community of YT is largely a backlash due to the Music/Movie/Etc. companies complaining about their products, and the machine not being able to sort out what to hit and not to hit effectively.

[Cin]

The video displayed an issue OfficialNerdCubed had, with a claim made in Valve's name which is funny because Valve allow Youtube videos, so it seems like yet another party claiming to Valve claimed the footage.
This is a video from OfficialNerdCubed in which he discusses this fact, plus the items that seem to get through:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3iUCUXVD8&feature=c4-overview&list=UUKab3hYnOoTZZbEUQBMx-ww[/media]

Shame they've killed comments on YT.

What a mess YT have made again. Talk about Video Killed the Radio Star, how about Youtube killed the Video Star.

What is more annoying is some of the Networks were slow to figure out what they were going to in relation to ID flags, according to SSoHPKC who's network took a while to tell him what to do.

[.Rai]

Pretty much most large companies have confirmed on Twitter that they wouldn't claim videos with their content anyway (which is really the correct thing to do, both for the company and the content creator).

I assume most of the claims are either spam claims or music-based claims. Obviously, it's incredibly difficult to shift through the claims to see which are legitimate, but YouTube are lazy to actually fix their Content ID system.